Video & Transcript Research : 'First Amendment rights'

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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Mar 18th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • Yeah, I would, especially if it's their first time. Right.
  • But right now it's just at the blanket approach. and it doesn't specify first-time offenders.
  • What happens to first-time offenders right now in the system? Right now— Felons.
  • I hope I said your first name right. You did, you said it perfect. Yes, so...
  • Well, first of all, the right to vote is actually not in. enshrined in the Constitution.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 5th, 2025

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • bill uh on the calendar oh we got first bill uh on the calendar oh we got first bill uh on the calendar
  • right and and then them to use it right right and and then them to use it right right and and then but
  • now where it is saying is that right now where it is saying is that right now where it is written the
  • experience with some of this all right experience with some of this all right uh we may have to talk
  • and it's to make sure I get it right and it's to make sure I get it right and it's right for the record
Bills: SB82, SB78, SB4, SB6, SB62, SB66, SB77, SB63, SB79, SB53, SB55, HB14
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee Feb 25th, 2026

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> That's right. Sit and wait. >> We fell off. >> That's<00:01:57.360> right.
  • First of all the committee amendment.
  • >> That's<00:04:56.960> right. >> That's right. >> That's right.
  • . amendment. amendment.
  • amendment?
Bills: HB329, SB5, HB329, SB5, HB43, HB75, HB396
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 2/25/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • Your motion should be right now to take it off the table as amended so we properly have it before us.
  • was correct on that, not that I would ever question him in the first place, but he's right on that.
  • Representative, I would like to first start off that since we first presented this two weeks ago now,
  • First, a clarifying question: if my memory serves, we did pass an oral amendment during our first time
  • /c><00:19:20.880> time<00:19:21.000> we Amendment uh during our first time we Amendment
Bills: HF4, HF173
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Municipal May 20th, 2026

Municipal

Transcript Highlights:
  • All right. All right. I would appreciate that. But you're right. I don't...
  • So we'll, if that's all right with you, we'll amend it on the floor, put that language in.
  • Right. So if you can help me, we'll get it right and we'll amend it correctly.
  • Before we move into an amendment, I may have an idea. Right. But that's right. Hold on.
  • Before we move into an amendment, I may have an idea. Right, but I still have the floor. I got you.
Bills: SB348, SB444, SB485
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Constitution, Campaigns and Elections Committee Feb 18th, 2026

Constitution, Campaigns and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • All right. upstairs.<00:05:35.280> All right.
  • Chair, you have a quorum. >> All right. Thank you.
  • >> All right. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you.
  • <00:10:40.160> step but it t it just takes that first step but it t it just takes that first
  • >> Right. >> Right. >> Right.
Bills: SB42, SB166, SB42, SB166
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions, February 11, 2026

Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions

Transcript Highlights:
  • All right.
  • All right.
  • >> Is that all right? >> Is that all right?
  • All right.
  • All right, that motion does not carry. Any other amendments? All right, we'll go to the bill.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee, February 11, 2026

Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions

Transcript Highlights:
  • First of all, on the county clerk’s proposed amendment, I was hoping you could address the reasoning
  • First of all, on the county clerk’s proposed amendment, I was hoping you could address the reasoning
  • First of all, on the county clerk’s proposed amendment, I was hoping you could address the reasoning
  • The first one had to do with timeline considerations. Two amendments were requested to...
  • All right. Committee have heard the testimony. Was your pleasure? I heard Steinmetz first.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/27/2026 - Senate Natural Resources

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • All right. All right. I'm just to say it so you can hear it into the... All right, all right.
  • All right, Jennifer Martin.
  • All right. Any other questions? All right. Thank you. All right. Mr.
  • All right. Any more questions? All right, thank you. All right, that's it. That's all we have.
  • All right. Any more questions? All right, thank you. All right, that's it. That's all we have.
Summary: The Senate Natural Resources Committee approved the January 13, 2026 minutes and held Senate Bills 1041 and 11676 by request for further review. The committee then heard Senate Bill 1197, which would allow irrigation grandfather rights and associated water duty in subsequent active management areas (AMAs) to be sold, leased, or transferred within the same AMA. The sponsor said the bill is intended to help wineries and other farmers in the Wilcox and Douglas areas adjust fields and expand while staying within existing water limits. Opposition testimony from Sierra Club and Rural Arizona Action argued the bill could increase groundwater pumping unless it includes stronger safeguards, such as a net reduction in water use and clearer ties to AMA management goals. The City of Wilcox and the Department of Water Resources were neutral but said the bill needs more work on consistency, oversight, and transparency. The committee passed SB 1197 on a 4-3 vote, with one member not voting. The committee then unanimously passed Senate Bill 1198, which continues the Arizona Beef Council for eight years until July 1, 2034. Testimony from the council’s executive director was supportive, and members discussed the importance of the beef industry and the value of longer continuation periods for agency review. Senate Bill 1199, which continues the Arizona State Veterinary Examining Board for eight years until July 1, 2034, also passed unanimously. Members used the discussion to raise broader concerns about the shortage of rural and large-animal veterinarians and the need for future funding and workforce support. Finally, the committee considered Senate Concurrent Memorial 1004, urging Congress to clarify the EPA’s powers and end what the sponsor described as regulatory overreach. Supporters framed it as a request for Congress to fix unclear federal law, while opponents said it would weaken science-based environmental protections and deny climate and public health realities. The memorial passed 4-3 with one not voting. The committee then adjourned.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/21/2026 - House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections

Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • All right, since this is our first meeting back from last session, we're going to go around the room,
  • That's your First Amendment right. I don't condone it, but it's your right.
  • is not supported by evidence, by law, or by reality, and it also violates the First Amendment.
  • If that’s the case, sir, then all they did was follow the First Amendment.
  • Yes, is it right here. I have a copy of the amendment if you would like. This, I see this piece.
Summary: The committee met to hear several measures, beginning with HCM 2001 and HCM 2002, both memorials urging Congress to review and potentially designate the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations. Supporters argued the groups have documented ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood’s stated goal of undermining Western civilization, citing the Holy Land Foundation case, FBI concerns, and testimony from national-security advocates. Opponents, including CAIR representatives, Muslim community members, and civil-rights advocates, said the memorials relied on guilt by association, would stigmatize Muslims, and lacked a factual or legal basis; they emphasized CAIR’s civil-rights work and warned of First Amendment concerns and community harm. After extensive debate and questions about the relationship between national and Arizona CAIR entities, the committee approved HCM 2001 and HCM 2002 on 4-3 votes, with members on both sides explaining their votes at length. Supporters framed the measures as simple requests to Congress based on existing federal findings, while opponents called them political theater and discriminatory. The committee then recessed briefly. When the committee returned, it heard HB 2009, which would prohibit committees primarily organized to influence constitutional amendments from accepting foreign national contributions and require donor verification and disclosure of out-of-state funding. The sponsor said the bill is meant to help voters understand outside influence on Arizona constitutional initiatives and suggested it could be broadened to all ballot measures. The bill passed 4-3. The committee then took up HCR 2001, a proposed constitutional amendment on elections that would limit voting to U.S. citizens, ban foreign contributions to candidate and ballot measure campaigns, require government-issued ID, and adjust early voting and mail-ballot rules. A late amendment clarified that the citizenship requirement applies to primary, general, and municipal elections, set early voting to end the Friday before an election, and refined mail-ballot rules while preserving federal overseas military voting requirements. The sponsor argued the measure would make Arizona elections more secure and efficient, while critics said it would create barriers and longer lines. The transcript cuts off during sponsor questioning on the amendment and ballot-access provisions.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Apr 2nd, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • All right.
  • Make sure we have the right... Y7W11-1. Make sure we have the right amendment.
  • Right.
  • We don't have an amendment on this one, do we? I think... All right. So long. On this one, do we?
  • All right. So the amendment is adopted unanimously. And, Senator... Um, Senator Smith. Okay.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships Apr 22nd, 2025 at 02:04 pm

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

Transcript Highlights:
  • All right, thank you. Call first on Don. Have you registered in favor of the bill?
  • Rights.
  • Right.
  • He has no rights. No rights, none to the child.
  • HB 3281 amends the grounds for the termination of parental rights, elevates the burden of proof to terminate
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Mar 18th, 2025

Alabama Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • All right, Secretary, read the amendment. All right, Secretary, receive the amendment. Please.
  • All right, Secretary, please read the amendment. All right, Secretary, please read the amendment.
  • You got your amendment ready? All... Right, all right.
  • All right, Secretary, please leave the amendment.
  • President, I have an amendment. All right, Secretary, read the amendment.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Mar 18th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • under the First Amendment?
  • So a family that never signs this way this permission slip still has rights under the First Amendment
  • They have signed away their rights. under the First Amendment. Isn't that true?
  • When First Amendment rights are implicated, those get great protection, as they should. and so you correct
  • That is also part of the First Amendment jurisprudence.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 9th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Absolutely, we have a First Amendment right.
  • My concern is going to be the micromanagement of how I exercise my First Amendment right for you to determine
  • Supreme Court has found that minors do have a First Amendment right to access information?
  • or character's political views or First Amendment free speech rights.
  • Does this amendment to the Does this bill protect the First Amendment right to freedom of expression,
Bills: HJR175, HJR88, HB21, HB49, HB216, HB346, HB573, HB565, HB954, HB1953, HB2686, HB1441, HB2734, HB1650, HB3161, HB2876, HB3185, HB3388, HB2761, HB3233, HB 1186, HB1534, HB5506, HB5129, HB3619, HB778, HB2867, HB3221, HB3672, HB2434, HB4903, HB3687, HB3675, HB4609, HB4582, HB4921, HB3866, HB3901, HB4534, HB2446, HB3984, HB700, HB4012, HB4491, HB4088, HB229, HB4234, HB722, HB4136, HB4105, HB4413, HB170, HB551, HB2858, HB3053, HB3142, HB3180, HB3722, HB2200, HB1794, HB1784, HB1581, HB2530, HB4308, HB1896, HB2974, HB3359, HB4580, HB2458, HB2215, HB3332, HB2278, HB3015, HB3151, HB1368, HCR9, HCR40, HB5138, SB17, HB4944, HB2284, HB3421, SB1569, SB2420, SB1968, SB2351, SB2544, SB1490, SB1349, SB1568, SB2776, HB3531, HB2149, HB4327, HB3158, HB3717, HB4520, SB888, SB552, HB3138, HB3704, HB2921, HB4853, HB4506, HB3892, HJR161, HJR175, HJR88, HB1937, HB3334, HB5444, HB5137, HB361, HB321, HB5447, HB464, HB678, HB2294, HB4172, HB3225, HB1769, HB5394, HB1837, HB1787, HB2271, HB2440, HB5134, HB5149, HB2151, HB2073, HB2186, HB2025, HB1936, HB1777, HB1663, HB 1306, HB 1290, HB1527, HB4802, HB3462, HB2963, HB2462, HB2560, HB644, HB2725, HB2621, HB2588, HB1443, HB1403, HB3032, HB1557, HB1664, HB2811, HB2088, HB2598, HB3062, HB3134, HB3940, HB4027, HB4097, HB4862, HB4170, HB4157, HB4205, HB4279, HB4377, HB4838, HB5424, HB5294, HB4870, HB4763, HB5639, HB4112, HB2275, HB1677, HB5014, HB3848, HB3797, HB3727, HB3709, HB3177, HB3057, HB4176, HB4202, HB2180, HB3528, HB3658, HB21, HB49, HB216, HB346, HB573, HB565, HB954, HB1953, HB2686, HB1441, HB2734, HB1650, HB3161, HB2876, HB3185, HB3388, HB2761, HB3233, HB 1186, HB1534, HB5506, HB5129, HB3619, HB778, HB2867, HB3221, HB3672, HB2434, HB4903, HB3687, HB3675, HB4609, HB4582, HB4921, HB3866, HB3901, HB4534, HB2446, HB3984, HB700, HB4012, HB4491, HB4088, HB229, HB4234, HB722, HB4136, HB4105, HB4413, HB170, HB551, HB2858, HB3053, HB3142, HB3180, HB3722, HB2200, HB1794, HB1784, HB1581, HB2530, HB4308, HB1896, HB2974, HB3359, HB4580, HB2458, HB2215, HB3332, HB2278, HB3015, HB3151, HB1368, HCR76, HCR127, HCR9, HCR40
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • All right. I'll go get the bill up, and then I will come back after you present your amendments.
  • Right.
  • Right.
  • This amendment right here, what it will do is make sure that if there is a law enforcement officer who
  • There is an amendment. Clerk, following amendment. Clerk, read the amendment.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • signing of the following: In the presence of the House, the following bills and resolutions are on first
  • HR number five by Leah Wilson amends the permanent rules of the House of Representatives relating to
  • HR number 17 by Money amends the permanent rules of the House of Representatives relating to quorum and
  • HR number 18 by Mick Laughlin amends the permanent rules of the House of Representatives relating to
  • HR number 58 by Leah Wilson amends the permanent rules.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Banking and Insurance Jan 28th, 2026

Banking and Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Would you like to bring up those amendments first? Yes. Okay, there are two amendments.
  • The amendment is adopted. Back on the bill as amended. Are there questions on the bill as amended?
  • Senator Claudiud, I see you have an amendment. We'd like to take up that first. Thank you, Mr.
  • That's the amendment. Are there questions on the amendment? Any debate on the amendment?
  • That is the amendment. Are there questions on the amendment? Any debate on the amendment?
Summary: The Committee on Banking and Insurance met with a quorum present and took up a series of bills, beginning with SB 1286 by Senator Wright. That bill expands the law enforcement recruitment bonus program to include firefighters, creates a DFS grant review panel for fire-related grants, and establishes an institute for PTSD and first-responder behavioral health. Testimony from fire chiefs and others supported the measure, and the committee reported it favorably. The committee then considered several insurance and financial regulation bills. CS/SB 198 by Senator Rousan, as amended, regulates virtual currency kiosks with transaction limits, notice and receipt requirements, and OFR enforcement authority; witnesses described it as a needed anti-fraud measure, especially for seniors, and it was reported favorably. CS/SB 772 by Senator Burgess, as amended, allows limited licenses for portable electronics and eyewear insurance, and CS/SB 1504 by Senator Claudio, as amended, creates a pathway for high school students to qualify for insurance customer representative licensure; both were reported favorably. The committee also approved two cryptocurrency reserve bills by Senator Gruters: CS/SB 1038 creates the Florida Strategic Cryptocurrency Reserve framework, and CS/SB 1040 creates the related trust fund; both received technical amendments and favorable reports. CS/SB 1440 by Senator Martin, as amended, creates public records exemptions and cybersecurity reporting provisions for financial institutions and related entities, and it was reported favorably. Finally, SB 1668 by Senator Burton, which updates the NICA program’s funding and benefit structure, and CS/SB 570 by Senator Polsky, which creates a task force on payment scams, were both heard with supportive testimony and reported favorably. Senators later recorded additional affirmative votes on selected bills before the committee adjourned.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Jan 14th, 2026

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • the first bill. the first bill.
  • Is that right? >> That's right.
  • Um, it's first come, first serve.
  • Amendment. What's who has the amendment. Amendment. What's who has the amendment?
  • . amended. amended.
Bills: HB87, HB96, HB28, HB87, HB96, HB28